Finance Contract Job Trends in England

Financial
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 1 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 7,825 5,538 7,053
As % of all contract jobs in England 18.71% 22.84% 19.15%
As % of the General category 34.46% 35.66% 33.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,024 3,692 4,922
10th Percentile £356 £355 £360
25th Percentile £447 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £592
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.83% -1.38%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £725
90th Percentile £800 £825 £825
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 97 237
10th Percentile £14.82 £18.39 £12.78
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £14.50
Median hourly rate £24.41 £40.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.72% +50.00% +5.02%
75th Percentile £56.68 £65.00 £38.12
90th Percentile £85.00 £77.11 £56.25
UK median hourly rate £25.38 £43.08 £27.00
% change year-on-year -41.08% +59.54% +5.02%

All General Skills
England

Finance falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 22,708 15,531 21,223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.29% 64.07% 57.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,912 10,026 13,631
10th Percentile £313 £282 £280
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £650
90th Percentile £743 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,560 705 1,815
10th Percentile £14.10 £13.41 £12.93
25th Percentile £18.32 £16.95 £15.50
Median hourly rate £31.16 £27.94 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.51% -8.39% -3.17%
75th Percentile £61.63 £53.75 £52.50
90th Percentile £80.06 £75.00 £67.38
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.94 £30.00
% change year-on-year +7.37% -6.87% -7.12%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Finance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Finance job vacancy trend in England

Finance
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the England region over the 6 months to 1 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London 0 4,725 £575 -6.12% 2,635
North of England +3 1,207 £492 +5.47% 716
South East -1 647 £500 -4.31% 829
North West +5 637 £465 +3.33% 422
Midlands -1 604 £492 +3.58% 425
Yorkshire +2 530 £519 +9.16% 229
West Midlands 0 415 £500 -2.13% 266
South West -2 362 £525 - 298
East of England +1 198 £520 -9.57% 211
East Midlands 0 184 £468 +6.36% 159
North East -16 41 £488 +7.73% 73
Finance
UK

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 282 (3.60%) Confluence
2 202 (2.58%) SharePoint
3 76 (0.97%) Apache Spark
4 58 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
5 45 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
6 44 (0.56%) Apache
7 25 (0.32%) SAS
8 23 (0.29%) CMS
9 20 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
10 16 (0.20%) CICS
11 14 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 13 (0.17%) Appian
13 12 (0.15%) Camunda
14 11 (0.14%) IIS
15 10 (0.13%) HCL Notes
15 10 (0.13%) Jupyter
15 10 (0.13%) Mendix
16 9 (0.12%) Ethereum
17 7 (0.089%) Oracle SOA Suite
18 6 (0.077%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 447 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 186 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
3 153 (1.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 152 (1.94%) Microsoft Project
5 112 (1.43%) MS Visio
6 45 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
7 34 (0.43%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.064%) Notion
8 5 (0.064%) Trello
9 4 (0.051%) Oracle Smart View
9 4 (0.051%) Sketch
10 2 (0.026%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.026%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.026%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.026%) InVision
10 2 (0.026%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.013%) MicroStation
11 1 (0.013%) UserZoom
11 1 (0.013%) UXPin
11 1 (0.013%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 283 (3.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 107 (1.37%) NetSuite
3 94 (1.20%) Oracle Payables
4 81 (1.04%) Oracle Receivables
5 78 (1.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 63 (0.81%) Oracle ERP
7 45 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
7 45 (0.58%) Oracle General Ledger
8 41 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
9 38 (0.49%) SAP FI
10 35 (0.45%) Aladdin
11 31 (0.40%) SAP CO
12 30 (0.38%) Oracle Financials
13 29 (0.37%) SAP FI/CO
14 27 (0.35%) Oracle Assets
14 27 (0.35%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
15 23 (0.29%) Workday HCM
16 22 (0.28%) Unit4 Business World
17 21 (0.27%) SAP BRIM
18 20 (0.26%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 1,243 (15.88%) Azure
2 902 (11.53%) AWS
3 549 (7.02%) Power Platform
4 379 (4.84%) GCP
5 270 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
5 270 (3.45%) SaaS
6 252 (3.22%) Microsoft 365
7 210 (2.68%) GitHub
8 202 (2.58%) Dynamics 365
9 153 (1.96%) Snowflake
10 142 (1.81%) Entra ID
11 131 (1.67%) Serverless
12 103 (1.32%) Power Automate
13 101 (1.29%) Amazon S3
14 95 (1.21%) OCI
15 89 (1.14%) Azure Data Factory
16 84 (1.07%) OpenShift
17 80 (1.02%) dbt
18 76 (0.97%) GitHub Actions
19 72 (0.92%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 145 (1.85%) Firewall
2 113 (1.44%) Network Security
3 65 (0.83%) DNS
4 64 (0.82%) VPN
5 57 (0.73%) WAN
6 52 (0.66%) TCP/IP
7 35 (0.45%) BGP
8 33 (0.42%) LAN
9 30 (0.38%) HTTP
10 27 (0.35%) DHCP
10 27 (0.35%) SSL
11 26 (0.33%) OSPF
12 24 (0.31%) MPLS
12 24 (0.31%) Multicast
13 22 (0.28%) SD-WAN
14 21 (0.27%) Cisco ASA
14 21 (0.27%) VSAN
15 19 (0.24%) VLAN
16 14 (0.18%) DMZ
17 13 (0.17%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 467 (5.97%) Power BI
2 216 (2.76%) SQL Server
3 207 (2.65%) Data Warehouse
4 149 (1.90%) PostgreSQL
5 141 (1.80%) Metadata
6 130 (1.66%) Relational Database
7 129 (1.65%) Tableau
8 111 (1.42%) Data Lake
9 87 (1.11%) NoSQL
10 69 (0.88%) Oracle Reports
11 65 (0.83%) Big Data
12 64 (0.82%) Oracle Database
13 54 (0.69%) BigQuery
14 45 (0.58%) MongoDB
15 44 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 41 (0.52%) Power Query
16 41 (0.52%) Snowflake Schema
17 40 (0.51%) Delta Lake
18 39 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
19 33 (0.42%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 595 (7.60%) JIRA
2 179 (2.29%) Git
3 140 (1.79%) Jenkins
4 88 (1.12%) GitLab
5 45 (0.58%) Cucumber
6 44 (0.56%) JUnit
7 36 (0.46%) Selenium
8 29 (0.37%) Postman
9 27 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
10 24 (0.31%) MLflow
10 24 (0.31%) SonarQube
10 24 (0.31%) Visual Studio
11 19 (0.24%) REST Assured
11 19 (0.24%) Zephyr
12 18 (0.23%) Maven
13 17 (0.22%) ERwin
14 15 (0.19%) Hudson
15 14 (0.18%) TeamCity
16 13 (0.17%) Bitbucket
17 11 (0.14%) Mockito
General
1 2,282 (29.16%) Social Skills
2 1,462 (18.68%) Banking
3 1,028 (13.14%) Analytical Skills
4 443 (5.66%) Public Sector
5 317 (4.05%) Financial Institution
6 315 (4.03%) Legal
7 291 (3.72%) Investment Banking
8 278 (3.55%) Front Office
9 257 (3.28%) Retail
10 235 (3.00%) Organisational Skills
11 203 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
12 181 (2.31%) Influencing Skills
13 138 (1.76%) Manufacturing
14 136 (1.74%) Marketing
15 135 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 127 (1.62%) Local Government
17 126 (1.61%) Law
18 123 (1.57%) General Ledger
19 115 (1.47%) Telecoms
20 112 (1.43%) Billing
Job Titles
1 1,168 (14.93%) Analyst
2 871 (11.13%) Senior
3 816 (10.43%) Lead
4 795 (10.16%) Developer
5 735 (9.39%) Architect
6 617 (7.88%) Project Manager
7 614 (7.85%) Business Analyst
8 509 (6.50%) Consultant
9 304 (3.88%) Solutions Architect
10 269 (3.44%) Data Engineer
11 205 (2.62%) Senior Manager
12 197 (2.52%) Financial Analyst
13 168 (2.15%) Data Analyst
14 160 (2.04%) Accountant
15 157 (2.01%) Programme Manager
16 153 (1.96%) Finance Manager
17 146 (1.87%) Software Engineer
18 145 (1.85%) Senior Developer
19 144 (1.84%) Java Developer
20 138 (1.76%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 231 (2.95%) .NET
2 229 (2.93%) REST
3 224 (2.86%) Kafka
4 213 (2.72%) React
5 171 (2.19%) Middleware
6 166 (2.12%) Oracle Fusion
7 132 (1.69%) Spring
8 130 (1.66%) Spring Boot
9 122 (1.56%) RESTful
10 98 (1.25%) Node.js
11 96 (1.23%) PySpark
12 91 (1.16%) AngularJS
13 87 (1.11%) Redux
14 72 (0.92%) JSON
15 70 (0.89%) OAuth
16 67 (0.86%) XML
17 61 (0.78%) CSS
18 60 (0.77%) Pandas
19 59 (0.75%) HTML
20 55 (0.70%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 352 (4.50%) Onboarding
2 344 (4.40%) Product Ownership
3 307 (3.92%) Cloud Native
4 218 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
5 189 (2.42%) Management Information System
6 167 (2.13%) Data Structures
7 153 (1.96%) Derivative
8 141 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
8 141 (1.80%) Fixed Income
8 141 (1.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 138 (1.76%) Data Centre
10 127 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
11 113 (1.44%) Equities
12 93 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
13 92 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
14 91 (1.16%) Public Cloud
15 89 (1.14%) Virtual Team
16 81 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
17 78 (1.00%) AI Agents
18 69 (0.88%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 262 (3.35%) Windows
2 246 (3.14%) Linux
3 122 (1.56%) Unix
4 64 (0.82%) Windows Server
5 42 (0.54%) Windows 10
6 36 (0.46%) Solaris
7 29 (0.37%) Apple iOS
8 27 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 26 (0.33%) Android
10 24 (0.31%) zOS
11 17 (0.22%) Mac OS
12 16 (0.20%) AIX
13 7 (0.089%) Windows Server 2012
14 6 (0.077%) Oracle Linux
14 6 (0.077%) VMS
14 6 (0.077%) Windows Server 2019
15 4 (0.051%) HPUX
15 4 (0.051%) MVS
15 4 (0.051%) SUSE
15 4 (0.051%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,638 (20.93%) Agile
2 1,590 (20.32%) Stakeholder Management
3 1,100 (14.06%) Migration
4 1,022 (13.06%) Problem-Solving
5 877 (11.21%) Continuous Improvement
6 850 (10.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 839 (10.72%) DevOps
8 803 (10.26%) CI/CD
9 787 (10.06%) ERP
10 771 (9.85%) AI
11 764 (9.76%) Analytics
12 722 (9.23%) Project Management
13 671 (8.58%) Decision-Making
14 657 (8.40%) Data Modelling
15 647 (8.27%) Roadmaps
16 640 (8.18%) Validation
17 620 (7.92%) Business Intelligence
18 594 (7.59%) User Acceptance Testing
19 552 (7.05%) Change Management
20 512 (6.54%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 1,097 (14.02%) SQL
2 952 (12.17%) Python
3 526 (6.72%) Java
4 335 (4.28%) C#
5 217 (2.77%) JavaScript
6 208 (2.66%) TypeScript
7 163 (2.08%) PowerShell
8 90 (1.15%) C++
9 71 (0.91%) Bash
10 67 (0.86%) Go
11 64 (0.82%) PL/SQL
12 61 (0.78%) T-SQL
13 50 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 49 (0.63%) Shell Script
15 42 (0.54%) Scala
16 39 (0.50%) VBA
17 28 (0.36%) Bicep
18 27 (0.35%) Apex Code
18 27 (0.35%) R
18 27 (0.35%) Rust
Qualifications
1 677 (8.65%) Degree
2 620 (7.92%) Security Cleared
3 440 (5.62%) SC Cleared
4 201 (2.57%) ACCA
5 196 (2.50%) PMP
6 181 (2.31%) CIMA
7 164 (2.10%) PMI Certification
8 132 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
9 124 (1.58%) Computer Science Degree
10 123 (1.57%) CISSP
11 83 (1.06%) Master's Degree
12 74 (0.95%) CISM
13 72 (0.92%) DV Cleared
14 68 (0.87%) Azure Certification
15 52 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
16 40 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
17 39 (0.50%) AWS Certification
18 32 (0.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 31 (0.40%) DBS Check
20 30 (0.38%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 474 (6.06%) Data Quality
2 357 (4.56%) QA
3 293 (3.74%) PMO
4 268 (3.42%) GDPR
5 151 (1.93%) NIST
6 126 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 108 (1.38%) IFRS
8 97 (1.24%) SLA
9 87 (1.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 82 (1.05%) GRC
11 70 (0.89%) Accessibility
12 60 (0.77%) PCI DSS
13 55 (0.70%) GAAP
14 53 (0.68%) ISO 20022
15 34 (0.43%) PSD2
16 33 (0.42%) NCSC
16 33 (0.42%) SEPA
17 28 (0.36%) IFRS 17
18 25 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
18 25 (0.32%) SOC 2
System Software
1 267 (3.41%) Docker
2 149 (1.90%) Active Directory
3 52 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (0.37%) vSphere
5 24 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
6 23 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
7 17 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
8 15 (0.19%) VMware NSX
9 11 (0.14%) Hyper-V
9 11 (0.14%) NFS
10 7 (0.089%) GPFS
11 6 (0.077%) KVM
11 6 (0.077%) RACF
12 5 (0.064%) Microsoft App-V
13 4 (0.051%) SRDF
14 3 (0.038%) GridGain
14 3 (0.038%) Oracle RAC
15 2 (0.026%) ACF2
15 2 (0.026%) HDFS
15 2 (0.026%) IAG
Systems Management
1 361 (4.61%) Kubernetes
2 226 (2.89%) Terraform
3 112 (1.43%) Ansible
4 78 (1.00%) Grafana
5 65 (0.83%) Prometheus
6 62 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
7 42 (0.54%) SCCM
8 32 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
9 18 (0.23%) FortiGate
10 17 (0.22%) Control-M
10 17 (0.22%) vRealize
11 15 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 15 (0.19%) Progress Chef
12 13 (0.17%) AirWatch
12 13 (0.17%) Nessus
13 12 (0.15%) Puppet
14 11 (0.14%) Argo
14 11 (0.14%) CASB
15 9 (0.12%) vCenter Server
16 8 (0.10%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 1,018 (13.01%) Microsoft
2 641 (8.19%) Oracle
3 640 (8.18%) SAP
4 270 (3.45%) ServiceNow
5 229 (2.93%) Databricks
6 187 (2.39%) Salesforce
7 171 (2.19%) Google
8 121 (1.55%) Workday
9 109 (1.39%) Splunk
10 106 (1.35%) VMware
11 95 (1.21%) Cisco
12 81 (1.04%) CyberArk
13 79 (1.01%) IBM
14 64 (0.82%) Citrix
15 56 (0.72%) OpenAI
16 53 (0.68%) Ariba
16 53 (0.68%) Sage
17 47 (0.60%) Bloomberg
17 47 (0.60%) IFS
18 44 (0.56%) Informatica